The Protomotive Story

Todd and Cynthia met in West Palm Beach, FL where they worked together building vintage racing Porsches, Turbo Street Porsches and just plain fun Porsches. In the early 90’s they moved to Northern California to continue working in the Porsche industry. Together they built a shop right at home in their barn! They outfitted their 25×75′ slab with areas for installing, machining, engine work, and a dyno for testing, thus Protomotive was born!

Todd and Cynthia set out to create a product that would define the Future of Protomotive. An amazing client with his Porsche 935 DP Got the first taste. A giant Intercooler fed the 3.5L twin plug, single turbo setup that swept records at multiple tracks. 650 horsepower and a client that was proud to show it off made a huge impact!.

Two years later, Protomotive moved to Southern California, where their two children Matthew and Samantha were born. Protomotive is currently located in the beautiful Ozark Mountains of Arkansas where their son Matthew and daughter, Samantha work with Protomotive.

Cynthia

Cynthia is the Porsche engine builder at Protomotive. Her precision work is done to the highest standards of reliability and performance, using her years of Porsche Engine Building knowledge.

In her spare time, you can find Cynthia gardening, horseback riding, or working on her personal American Car Collection.

Todd

Todd tunes your Porsche and designs Protomotive Porsche builds. His knowledge of the upgraded parts, Porsche mechanics, and Porsche ECU’s will lead to a flawless harmony between your tune and machine. When you receive your Protomotive Porsche or Tune, you can be confident that Efficiency and Reliability are just as important as Power in our equation of creating a perfected driving experience.

Todd enjoys Porsches. He frequently drives his Blue Protomotive 996 Turbo reliably making 1000RWHP; however, his current project is titled “Frankenstein” or “Frank” for short since it began life as a 2010 997.2TT rescue, but now has a 2010 GT3RS engine in it with a 997.1TT big build getting ready!.

Samantha

Samantha works on Product Engineering and Marketing. She can often be found 3D scanning, building CAD files for our performance parts and tools, designing new merchandise, or illustrating Protomotive cars for clients that desire a custom products.

Samantha is a talented artist and photographer. She loves spelunking and hiking with her dogs. She has both degrees in Mathematics and Art from John Brown University.

Matthew

Matthew began working on Porsches around 13 years old and is currently focused on future product research including hybrid tech development for Protomotive. He is also studying computer language.

Matthew has always enjoyed travelling, hiking, reading, and racing.

Austin

As a talented fabricator and mechanic, Austin works in both the garage and fab rooms. He is normally fabricating parts, performing maintenance, or installing many of our high-end part upgrades. If you build a Protomotive Porsche, Austin is sure to have his talent invested in it.

Austin enjoys building and flying racing drones, as well as working on his project Mercedes 190E.

Protomotive Pups

Dogs are an essential part of our staff at Protomotive. While they do in fact keep our shop free of pests, they also bring a lot of personality to the workplace. The number is ever-changing, but there are often around 8 dogs in the shop! Although we love all our pups, Keenan, pictured first, is Todd’s personal assistant and break enforcer.

Send us pictures of your shop dogs to be featured on our Instagram story!